New appointments for Professor Barry Rider

Professor Barry Rider OBE (1976), Fellow and Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, has been appointed by Zhongnan University of Economics and Law to the Chair in Social Governance Law tenable in the Centre for the Rule of Law.

He has also been appointed a Wenlan Scholar Chair in the Institute for Strategic Studies in Law and Social Policy funded by the Ministries of Education and Justice of the People's Republic of China. At a separate ceremony he was appointed an Honorary Professor of Jurisprudence at Wuhan University.